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Toy Fair 2017 has come and gone. It was an amazing show, and we posted over 3,700 photos network wide. Anyone who may have missed some of the news can find it all here. We’ve rounded up all of our coverage, network wide, from Toy Fair and you can check out some things you missed, or easily find the photos you want to check out again. See the links below and thank you for reading and sharing!

Our friends from The Loyal Subjects are in attendance at Toy Fair 2017 and they’ve brought their G.I.Joe wave 2 assortment with them! On display was the full wave 2 collection along with all current exclusive offerings, such as Arctic Firefly, Tiger Force, Python Patrol and more.

You can check out the full gallery after the break. For more news live from Toy Fair 2017, make sure to visit our sister sites, The Toyark, Toku Nation and TFW2005 for coverage all weekend long!

The 50th Anniversary collection will be available until autumn 2017, and new additions to the limited edition range will be announced early 2017.

“This unique range has been developed for the gift and collector’s market and we hope that it triggers many fond memories of everyone’s childhood play. Through these product releases we hope to capture the very best of the Action Man brand”, said Peter Rooke, managing director of Art + Science International.”

Those who visit the show can take a look at the 2017 lineup at Stand F36. We’ve attached a scan of a small leaflet with this news post.

Due to multiple Toy Fairs falling close together, Hasbro (along with Mattel) will be skipping this year’s London Toy Fair. Happily however, Hasbro distributor A.B.Gee officially stated that Hasbro’s 2017 toyline will be featured at London Toy Fair by them. The list includes Transformers as well as Nerf. For more information, visit our sister site TFW2005.COM.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to check out our Toy Fair 2016 coverage. We enjoy checking out all the new items coming for the year and sharing all these photos with you. We strive to provide better images each year and we hope you enjoyed what you saw. We clocked in at roughly 3,800 photos during the weekend. We also want to thank all the companies who scheduled appointments with us. Below, you can find all of our coverage links, broken up by day. So if you missed some photos, you can catch up!

What do we officially know will be happening with the G.I. Joe brand in 2016? Hasbro will be producing a G.I. Joe 2016 SDCC Exclusive (TBA) and they will honor the production of the fans choice poll figure Stiletto, from Bill Nedrow’s third Kindle Worlds novel – G.I. JOE: Body Count, in a yet to be determined way. There will be NO main G.I. Joe action figure line in 2016, not even a Toys “R” Us Exclusive run.

Hasbro has stated that they are in development of their next incarnation of G.I. Joe as a main stream pop culture movie along with Micronauts, M.A.S.K., and Visionaries. No details were given if these will be an all in one movie, or just slightly connected to form a Hasbro Universe effect. At this point, the when and how all of this gets done is up in the air, and still in it’s infancy.

What is perfectly clear at this point is that G.I. Joe will not see a big return to retail without Movie support. We may even see another Toys “R” Us style run inbetween the gap of time it takes to produce the next Movie roll out, but 2016 will not be that year. We are currently in the middle of the biggest explosions of pop culture comic book movies of all time. It’s a golden age for fans who grew up reading comics, and now we get to see all of these intellectual properties play out on the big screen. Hasbro needs to really take their time and create movies that can keep up with Star Wars, Marvel, and DC. This is a daunting task with these power houses staring them in the face. Bottom line is G.I. Joe needs a huge movie if it ever wants to be restored to the #1 selling boys toys brand it once was. This is the world we live in. No movie, no buy in on your brand.

Toy Fair 2016 came off as a bit vanilla as a whole. Sure there were really awesome toys shown from all the major companies that produce action figures/toys, but most of them were fighting over the same five brands. Marvel, DC, Star Wars TMNT and Transformers. The lack of diversity was on full display.

The one bright spot everybody was talking about was the absolute success of Deadpool. It shows that if Hollywood just takes the source material that everybody loves, and makes it look like the source material, comic book movies can and will make money. Lets hope that Deadpool has opened the door to more producers and movie executives letting existing properties keep all of their tone and colorful characters just the way they were meant to be without reinventing the wheel.

Got something to add? Sound off after the jump and let everybody know how you feel about the G.I. Joe State of the Union – Toy Fair 2016 Edition!

Check out the only GI Joe collectibles we see at Toy Fair 2016. The Loyal Subjects had a nice display of their GI Joe Action Vinyl Figures at their booth. These include vehicles, figures, and even a dio piece. You can see all of the photos by reading on.

Speaking to Toy World Magazine (January 2016 Issue) Hasbro stated that G. I. Joe 3 is in development. Though, Micronauts were previously announced as attached to G. I. Joe, a separate movie seems to be in work and may connect later in a Marvel Cinematic Universe fashion.

Happily, Hasbro seems to be enthusiastic about the new projects which may result in a new revival for the Joe brand (hopefully).

Stephen Davis, executive VP and Chief Content Officer of Hasbro stated that their newly established Allspark Pictures will have more control over the content of the movies.

Please find scans of the magazine courtesy of our sister site, after the jump. And please join with the TFW Network as we bring you the best Toy Fair coverage around.

In case you missed something yesterday, here’s a re-cap of the items we covered at JoeCon 2015 on Friday! Here you’ll get to see more of the fantastic Exclusive Galleries DESTRO has been posting and you’ll get to check out the awesome items at the Boss Fight Studio Booth!

Sad news for NYC and those of us who love visiting this TRU location while in town. Not only did this TRU location have massive displays and amusement park rides, it also held a ton of stock for all the brands we love to collect. According to Commercial Observer.com the Time Square Toys R Us will be moving out in 2016.

Now that the Toy Fair 2015 team has had some time to recover from the massive intake of new toys, we would like to share with you our list of Top 10 Toys of Toy Fair 2015!

#1 The G.I. Joe Brand:SIKE! Yes the G.I. Joe Brand is that epic, that it did not need to be at Toy Fair 2015 for all that extra press. For that reason alone G.I. Joe wins at Toy Fair 2015…….

#2 Combiner Wars Devastator: With all the 3rd Party Transformers toys that Hasbro puts up with, they came back with an Answer in a big way with Combiner Wars Devastator! Not only is the combined form a really nice throw back to the original, they turned this one into an ultimate collectors version. This for me was the strongest Transformers offerings in years, after the brand has been suffering through all the TF Movie garbage. The Combiner Wars sets are all awesome, not just Devastator.

#3 Marvel Legends Hulkbuster BAF: I was able to hold and pose an almost production level BAF Hulkbuster and I was impressed by the amount of articulation they were able to get into such a bulky Marvel Legends figure. It looks like a very strong year for Marvel Legends and 6-inch scale figures.

#4 Marvel Infinite Ant Man with Giant Ant: With the recent take over of the 6-inch Marvel Legends figures and Hasbro moving away from Infinite-Universe being the dominate scale, it was nice to see the awesome play-set of Ant Man and his Giant Ant.

#5 DC Collectibles DC Icons Batman: Yet another 6-Inch line that is looking to fit right in with style and articulation of Marvel Legends. If your a fan of DC Comics this line is sure to turn some heads and add these to your shelf.

#8 NECA Classic Video Game Series Figures: This is one of those lines that I want to go and back fill because I missed out on a few releases. NECA really has a nice product and brand in the Classic Video Game Series Figures.

#9 Spider-Man Marvel Legends BAF Rhino: Again I really need to point out the brute strength of the Marvel Legends 2015 line up. The Rhino BAF looks menacing and is by far the best version to date.

#10 Mezco One:12 Collective Batman: A new style and product line from Mezco was shown off called One:12 Collective and the first figure is Batman. A very unique take for an action figure and I hope we get to see ThunderCats under this line.